2016英語(yǔ)專四聽力原文

1、2016年英語(yǔ)專業(yè)四級(jí)考試答案ListeningPART I DICTATIONThink Positively and Feel PositivelyAre you confident or insecure in a difficult situation? Do you react positively or negatively? The answer may depend inpart on whom you are around.A study found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cases. For exa

2、mple, the researchersstudied 103 college roommates. They measured each roommatenegative thinking. It was found that thinking patterns can be contagious. Students with a negative thinking roommate becamemore depressed themselves and students with more positive thinking roommates were more likely to b

3、ecome more positiveas well.PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A TALK1. success2. challenging settings3. National Spelling Contest4. passion and perseverance5. future a reality6. marathon7. grittier8. measures of talent9. not fixed10. not permanentSECTION B CONVERSATIONS1. C. procedure2. A. job3.

4、 C. presentation4. D. company5. B. 11 Thursday6. B. Handle7. A. increased by 6 to8. B. first9. D. withdraw10. A. charitables tendency towardsPART III LANGUAGE USAGE11-20: ADABB DBABC 21-30: ADABA CDBDCPART IV CLOZE31-40: HLIEDKOCMGPART V READING COMPREHENSION41-50: BADBD ADCBD51. Keep wits together

5、in the presence of that food.52. The author was given the million-pound bank-note.53. It symbolizes peace and unity.54. Meeting basic needs and making low-paid work.55. Good things will happen by taking care of the present.PART VI WRITING參考范文When it comes to whether parents should take their childre

6、n to spend holidays during term-time, views on the issue varyfrom person to person. Parents claim that by doing so, they can save a lot of money born of busy school holidays.Educational officials strongly oppose this tendency on the ground that it encourages truancy, which in turn damages a childeds

7、ucation. From my perspective, the merits of banning term-time holidays outweigh its demerits.To begin with, taking tough measures on this kind of truancy is conducive to the normal teaching process, one of the keyelements to guarantee kids academic performance. As we know, currently, teachers have t

8、he discretion to approve acertain time of absence from school for each child, which is supposed to be for illness and is not supposed to be granted forholidays. By definitely abolishing the right of head teachers to“authorize absence”from the classroom, thteachers can rarely be pestered by parents w

9、ho want to take children to go on a holiday just to save money, which severelydisrupts te aching process. Whats more, without strict penalties imposedon the parents who lead to their kids playing truant, those parents can gradually view asking for holiday leave as a right.Once this cultural expectat

10、ion is formed, the level of truancy will dramatically increase.Accordingly, the growing trend of term-time holidays should be banned with no delay. In this way, teachers can impartknowledge without disturbance and parents will be deterred from saving money at the expense of sacrificing their kidsedu

11、cation.2016專四聽力原文PART I DICTATIONThink Positively and Feel PositivelyAre you confident or insecure in a difficult situation? Do you react positively or negatively? The answer may depend inpart on whom you are around.A study found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cases. For example, t

12、he researchers studied 103college roommates. They measured each roommatetsendency towards negative thinking. It was found that thinkingpatterns can be contagious. Students with a negative thinking roommate became more depressed themselves and studentswith more positive thinking roommates were more l

13、ikely to become more positive as well.PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A TALKWhat is Grit?Good morning, everyone. Today I would like to talk about my recent research project, concerning the key to success. Iwould like to start my topic with my own story.When I was 27 years old, I left for a d

14、emanding job - teaching seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests. I gave out homework assignments. When the work came back, I calculatedgrades.What struck me was that I.Q. was not the only difference between my best and my worst students

15、. Some of mystrongest performers did not have super I.Q. scores. Some of my smartest kids werent doing so well.And I felt interested in knowing the reason why the studentsmath performance is not thatclosely related to their IQ scores. I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of challenging se

16、ttings, and in every study myquestion was, who is successful here and why? My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy. We tried topredict which students would stay in military training and which would drop out. We went to the National Spelling Contestand tried to predict which childr

17、en would advance furthest in competition. We worked with private companies, asking, whichof these sales people is going to keep their jobs? And whos going to earn the most money? We went to many places. Andfinally, one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasnt social

18、 intelligence. It wasnt good looks,physical health, and it wasnt I.Q. It was grit. What is grit?Well, grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not justfor the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to

19、 make future a reality. Grit is living your life likeits a marathon, not a sprint.A few years ago, I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools. I asked thousands of high school juniors to takegrit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate. It turned

20、out that grittier kids weresignificantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like familyincome, test scores, and so on. To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows,about building it. Every day

21、, parents and teachers asked me, How do I build grit in kids? How do I keep them motivated forthe long run? Our data show very clearly that thereare many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitment. In fact, in our data, grit is usuallyunrelated to measures of talent.So

22、 far, the best idea Ive heard about building grit in kids is something called growth mindset. Growth mindset is thebelief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort. Kids with grit are much more likely to perseverewhen they fail, because they dont believe that failur

23、e is a permanent condition.So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit. But we need more. And thats where Im going to end my talk,because thats where we are. Thats the work that stands before us. We have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start overagain with lessons learned.As a conclus

24、ion, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier. Next time, I would like to share with you myexperience in bui lding up studentsgrit.Section B Conversation One W: Hello, this is Kate Smith. Im callingCforommpaAnByC. M: Oh, hello, Kate. Great to hearfrom you.W: Youve already been told thaty

25、ouve been sho-lritsted for interview. M: Oh, yes.W: Well weverery excited about meeting you. Ok, I just want to talk you through the procedure for the day. Someone willmeet you when you arrive, and then bring you up to meet myself and Arthur Miller, the CEO.M: Ok sounds good. So will you be the only

26、 members of the interview panel there then?W: Yes, itII be just me Anthur who will talk to you. The in terview will be in three parts -firstof all well ask you some general questions about yourself and your educational and professional background, andthen wel mlove on to specifics.M: Oh, er, Specifi

27、cs? Well er, what kind of questions will you be asking?W: Well, itll be very similar to the personal statement you submitted with your C-Vwell be expecting you to to give actualexamples of problems you aced and solvedv,eafnd of what you feel are the major successes in your career so far.M: Ok well y

28、eah, that sounds great-cant wait!W: Then therell be a chance for you to ask us any questio- nasbout the job itself, or ABCCompany in general.M: Oh, erm, ok.Ill think of something!W: After that, wed like you to give a short presentation on how youABseCeas a company progressing, and how you seeyoursel

29、f taking us there.M: Ok so will I be expected to give like a formal style presentation?W: It can be as formal or informal as you like. Therecomputer andllabdeaata projector thereavailable. If you need anything else, just let us know.M: Oh, erm ok, a presentation! Ill think of something. I havent don

30、e one of those in a while.W: Is that all clear?M: Yes.W: Great, so, Daniel, Ill see you Taht u1r1sadmay, , next week.M: Ok, great. I look forward to meeting you! Thanks, bye. W: Bye.Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.Question 1: Why does the woman call the man?Question 2: What kind of qu

31、estions can the man ask in an interview?Question 3: Which is the last part of the interview?Question 4: What might be expected from the mans presentation?Question 5: When is the interview scheduled?Conversation TwoW: It says a growing number of students are making a major hole from the minute they e

32、nter the real world, because they arealready some of them, more than 100,000 dollars in debt. With us now is Mark Spencer. He is the senior financial analystfrom SBC Bank. Welcome to you.M: Thank you, nice to be with you.W: Now, I guess there are two kinds of debts, good debt and bad debt. Where doe

33、s this go?M: Well, student loan debt is traditionally considered good debt, but the problem for many students and their families is thatthe cost of colleges has been going up at 6-8% a year, far faster than the income, far faster than the standard of living.That means debttasking on a bigger and big

34、ger role in financing education.W: How much debt is too much debt for-for one student?M: Well, one guideline is that you look at the first-year salary in your field after graduation, anduse that as a barometer, but even the nW: Is that right?M: Well, you are talking big payments even in that instanc

35、e. For example, 30,000 dollarsrthwo of debt, if you are gonnarepay that over 10 years, you are talking more than 300 dollars a monthsdebt in payments every month for 10 years.W: But there are surely more than one way to get a loan for college. There are government programs, there are so manykinds of

36、 grants. Whats-whats the best advice for people who are looking for these loans to try to keep themselves fromgoing under?M: I understand that loans are just one way of college finance. Take advantage of the other opportunities, things like acollege savingsplan. Let-let you save on a tax advantage basis, so you can put money away in these accounts andwithdr